Marland
given name · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, named from Old English mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɑɹɫənd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marland is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 497K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 47K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 116K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
669 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, named from Old English mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’. There may also have been some confusion with Markland.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marland counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 669 | 1 in 497K | 627 | Marland | 191 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 529K | listed | Marland | 131 |
| PH Philippines | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 952K | — | Marland | 6 |
| IT Italy | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 639K | — | Marland | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 440K | — | Marland | 45 |
| SG Singapore | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 243K | — | Marland | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Marland | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 16 | 1 in 47K | 16 | Marland | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 339K | — | Marland | 9 |
| DK Denmark | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 423K | 19 | — | — |
669 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Marland is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
possibly a variant of Dutch Merlan, from French merlan ‘whiting’, a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or seller of these fish.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, minor place in the parish of Rochdale, so called from OE mere lake, pool + land land. There may also have been some confusion with Markland.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, minor place in the parish of Rochdale, so called from OE Var. (of 4): Merker. Cogns. (of 1 and 2): Ger.: Marker, Merker.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In English, A surname from Old English.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
habitational name from Maarland in Eijsden, Dutch Limburg.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marland Pratt Billingsb. 1902USAmerican structural geologist (1902–1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 517 | #44,679 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 508 | #40,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 484 | #44,423 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #24,850 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Marland mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Rochdale, named from Old English mere ‘lake’, ‘pool’ + land ‘tract of land’, ‘estate’, ‘cultivated land’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Marland?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑɹɫənd/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Marland a male or female name?
- Marland is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Marland have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 669 people named Marland, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marland.
- Where is Marland most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Marland is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 47 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Marland?
- In the United States, the national register counted 669 people named Marland in 2020, about 1 in 497 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marlandThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marland”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.